Oikia's 30+1 Anniversary Celebration
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Oikia's 30+1 Anniversary Celebration

November 27 - November 29

Everyone is welcome, feel free to bring your friends!

Please bear in mind:

Around Parking:

There will be no space for cars on Oikia’s grounds. Please park your car at Aghios Vasilis beach and walk up the path to Oikia.

Around food:

Around accommodation:

For Friday and Saturday nights, if you need a place to sleep please let us know. We have some offers for hospitality at friends’ houses and spaces in bell tents on Oikia’s grounds hosting 4 to 5 people each, or you can bring your own tent. For the night of the party, the top floor of Oikia will be available for sleeping collectively. However those spots are limited and we would like to keep them primordially for people who wouldn’t be able to participate otherwise. So again, please let us know asap.

FULL PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

17:00 Opening Circle, with Myrsini, Christina and us all Playing, singing, coming together

Checking in - bringing our voice to the circle

Sharing stories of special moments at Oikia, from the deep deep past to emerging times…

19:30 Pot luck dinner 20:30 Fire Ceremony

Honoring our passage on this planet… Sharing together a moment of reverence… Taking a breath.

Re-aligning with the earth and the stars, with our birth and our death, with those who came before and those who will come after… remembering, together, eternity in the present moment.

A moment to pray, wish, step in, let go…

If you like, bring a symbolic object to offer to the fire, reaching in, reaching out…

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28

9:00–10:00: Yoga with live music, with Evangelia Rekliti and Thanasis Kleopas

I breathe in unity, I breathe out gratitude… I breathe in love, I breathe out thanks… Yoga as union with my surroundings and within me.

10:30 – 14:00: Children workshop, with Amfisa and Melina Adrakta

10:30 – 12:30: Drawing, with Kyriaki Christakopoulou

We’ll begin by getting a feel for our materials—our pencils, paper, erasers, and sharpeners— as if we were seeing them for the first time... We’ll draw simple lines and shapes, such as circles, squares, and triangles... and using these shapes, we’ll create familiar objects from our surroundings—or entirely imaginary environments.

My goal is for each of us to experience childlike joy and delight through whatever we imagine creating.

I look forward to playing with shapes and colors with all of you.

10:30 – 12:00: Traditional sourdough bread-making, with Eliso Mitrakou

… and distribution of sourdough to the participants.

10:30–12:00: Butoh & Viewpoints Movement Workshop, with Aliki Germanou & Nikoleta Xenariou (Common Era)

Butoh and Viewpoints converge in a shared realm of physical exploration. Movement, space, time, coexistence! Come explore how individual physical expression can be transformed into collective stage action.

12:30–14:00: Women’s Circle with Vasso Papali and Men’s Circle, with Nikolaos Kalatzis

Still open to propositions for a Non-Binary Circle

M: Building trust and self-awareness within the group, while simultaneously identifying each participant’s immediate needs and challenges, in an atmosphere of confidentiality and without judgment.

What might a journey toward intimacy look like from a man’s perspective? Explore an experiential session (no more than two exercises), inspired primarily by contact improvisation, to navigate “vulnerable” emotions that are often transformed into more typical expressions, such as anger, control, or rigid forms of masculinity. (Possibly) this session could also shed light on unspoken relationship dynamics and engagement biases that emerge in peer interactions.

W: Women’s Circles, known since ancient times, have for millennia served as a centre of connection in primordial societies. A CONNECTION to Mother Earth, to the Cycles of Life, to the core of the human being, to the Sacred, to human relationships, and to our Feminine Power. After centuries of being dormant in the so-called civilised world, in recent years they have been reviving more and more.

In this Circle, come and share (on the occasion of this celebration marking 30 years of operation of a Centre that has enriched the life of the island and beyond), moments, memories, emotions, ‘colours and scents’, as the verse goes, from the last 30 years, just as we women know how – giving birth to children, worlds, Life!

And let’s co-create a ‘work of art’ with our hands and our inspiration!

14:00 Children’s Presentation

14:00 Lunch

15:30–16:45: Relaxing into Movement, with Kirstie Simson and Charlie Brittain

Gentle Dancing Practices that Promote Well-Being, Resilience and Healing in Challenging Times

No prior experience of moving is necessary.

17:15–18:15: The Vision of Self-Sufficiency and Genetic Modifications in Plants and Animals, with Vasso Kanellopoulou

In our diet, patents that lead to biopiracy, the deliberate modification of living organisms, combined with AI, the proposed changes to the microbiome, are undermining the commons and diminishing our vision of self-sufficiency, independence, and the right to choose. All of this is currently happening under society’s radar. Let’s present these issues briefly and discuss what is possible for us to do.

18:30–19:30: Experiential games for children, with Zoe Tsapakidou

A workshop in which experiential play is combined with various art forms (theater, music, movement, visual arts) to give voice to children’s imaginations. Within a safe space, the young participants work together to embark on a journey of self-discovery and connection. An experience full of laughter and energy that fosters emotional intelligence and authentic relationships. Ages 5–10.

18:30–20:00: “Voices of Aegina”, Playback Theater with Dimitris Beyoglou

Playback Theater listens to your life stories and reenacts them immediately on stage. Come join us in improvising and strengthening the bonds between us. Come share what challenges us and what we love about living in Aegina, let’s walk in each other’s shoes… Come see it all unfold on stage!

20:00–20:30 We’ll all sing along, with Myrto Apostolidou

What happens when people’s voices join together? Familiar songs that we have come to love take on a collective voice .

Around 21:00 Dance Party

The party will most probably start with greek dances to live music, and then we will go on with DJ Myrto, other DJ’s yet to manifest and what moe!

Thanks to Amfissa, Melina and many friends we will prepare a beautiful meal, feel free to add your meze to it and please bring your favorite drink.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29

9:00 - 10: 00 Qi Gong, with Tasos Staveris

10:30 Closure circle

12:00 Brunch

After the closure, Oikia will stay open the whole Sunday for any loose ends that may

remain from the previous activities.

PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS:

Monday 23

20:00: ”A short introduction to the Volcanology of Aigina”, with Krishan Marx

- What is a cristal, a Mineral, a Rock?

- Sedimentary, Magmatic and Metamophic Rocks

- Plutonites and Volcanoes

- Types of Volcanoes, how dangerous are they

- The volcanic rocks of Aigina

Tuesday:

20:00: Guitar solo, with Jan Υοussef.

A solo guitar performance by Jan Yοussef, exploring the meeting point between flamenco, Middle Eastern influences, and different musical traditions. Through original compositions and improvisation, Jan weaves melodies, rhythms, and soundscapes inspired by the places, cultures, and musical worlds he has encountered along his journey.

An intimate musical experience that moves between tradition and exploration, inviting listeners to slow down, listen, and get carried away by the music.

Wednesday:

17:30 - 19:00: Sing without fear or shame, with Thanasis Kleopas

The aim of the workshop is to bring us into contact with that part of ourselves which, like a bird, feels the need to sing for the sheer joy of singing.We will therefore learn to sing the world’s oldest recorded song, the ‘Epitaph of Seikilos’, and through its philosophical dimension we will experience the liberation of the voice and gain an insight into vocal improvisation.

20:00: “Dying Duets | Shimmering,” a performance with Kirstie Simson and Charlie Brittain Dying duets is the extension of a Life process where we dare to stay with the questions, shimmering, as we embrace the vulnerability of fragility and living risk. Drawing on the radical softness of the heart-space, Kirstie and Charlie explore the carrying of death through life and the momentary deaths that reveal Life in its most essential essence. The one choice, within the myriad of possibilities, that is called for in every moment; the burning away, and the joy and transformation that is released.

Thursday:

17:30-20:00: Gentle Dancing Practices that Promote Well-being, Resilience and Healing in Challenging Times, a movement workshop with Charlie Brittain and Kirstie Simson

In honouring our body’s innate attraction and drive towards wholeness, balance, creativity & healing, we will explore embodied intelligence and imagination utilising what we call ‘gentle dancing practices’ that emerge from the radical softness of the heart-space.

No prior experience of moving is necessary.

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